Wilted Spinach Salad with Sherry Vinaigrette

This wilted spinach salad doesn’t follow the bacon-and-egg tradition but it’s big on flavor with rich sherry vinegar, a touch of smoky paprika and briny olives.

photographer:
Ken Burris
Ingredients

Total Time: 15 minutes

12 ounces fresh spinach, (see Note)

1/2 cup thinly sliced shallot

1/3 cup sherry vinegar, or red-wine vinegar

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

2 tablespoons sliced almonds

1/4 teaspoon smoked or hot paprika, (optional)

1/3 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth, or vegetable broth

1/4 cup chopped black olives, such as Kalamata

Directions

6 servings, about 1 1/2 cups each

Place spinach in a large bowl.

Place shallot, vinegar and oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, until the liquid is nearly evaporated. Add almonds and paprika (if using) and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute more. Stir in broth and olives and bring to a simmer. Immediately pour the dressing over the spinach and toss until slightly wilted.

Nutritional Facts

Servings

6

Per serving

Calories

77

Carbohydrates

3g

Fat

6g

Saturated Fat

1g

Monounsaturated Fat

5g

Protein

2g

Cholesterol

0mg

Dietary Fiber

2g

Potassium

352mg

Sodium

117mg

Added Sugars

0g

Exchanges

1 vegetable

1 fat

Carbohydrate Servings

0

Vitamin A (108% daily value)

Folate (28% dv)

Vitamin C (27% dv)

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2 replies

Now that I have been informed on vinegars, it seems if we used ACV this recipe is acceptable. I have been making the warm sweet bacon dressing for years with substitutions because I love spinach salad. Thank you for another salad dressing recipe for me to add to my collection. I could live on salads.

If you are assuming adding vinegar to a recipe will lower blood sugar, don't. The only vinegar tested that lowered blood sugar was apple cider vinegar so there's no reason to recommend recipes with balsamic vinegar (5 times the sugar of ACV), sherry (balsamic vinegar with sherry flavoring added so same sugar) or rice wine vinegar and any other vinegar as having the same effect on blood sugar. Scientifically inaccurate. While this recipe has a lot of things going for it, thinking that you can use any vinegar other than ACV to get the researched result is false. And substituting these vinegars is scientifically inaccurate.